Reference
BS2268
Title
Abstract of title of Mrs. Susan Rugeley, to freehold estate, Roxton.
Date free text
1760 – 1812
Production date
From: 1760 To: 1812
Scope and Content
[reciting: Marriage Settlement (Lease and Release) 26/27 July 1776.
(i) Susan Payne, spinster (only daughter and heir of William Payne deceased who was the only son and heir of William Payne late Biggleswade, gentleman)
(ii) Matthew Rugeley, St. Ives, gentleman
(iii) Reverend John Livett, Lewisham, Kent.
John Margetts, St. Ives, merchant
-- farmhouse called Forty
-- Home close, Ruffins close, Rickes Close,
-- 3 acres planted with willows
-- close (5 acres) Wyboston fields
-- 107 acres in common fields
-- 9 acres 2 roods meadow
-- Midsummer alias Cowpasture grounds, Wyboston.
(Wyboston, Eaton, Roxton, Chawson, formerly in the occupation of Thomas Boston, then John George).
-- Farmhouse Wyberson.
-- Foot Ball close
-- 65 acres in common fields
-- 6 acres meadow
-- 6 acres 2 roods leys
(Wyberson, Eaton, Roxton, Chawson)
formerly in the occupation of Thomas Boston, then John George.
-- farmhouse and close, (12 acres) Chawson.
-- 88 acres 2 roods land in common fields (Chawson, Roxton, Eaton, Wyberson)
-- 7 acres 2 roods meadow
late in the occupation of John Barnard, then John Bodger
-- 6 acres meadow, Wyberson and Chawson in the occupation of John Barnard, then John Bodger
-- 1½ acres Wyberson fields, late in the occupation of John Wright, then John George and John Bodger.
-- 13 acres 1 rood Roxton fields.
formerly in the occupation of Elizabeth Bernard, then John Bodger to Reverend John Livett and John Margetts in trust:
(a) messuage and tenements in Wyboston, Eaton, Roxton and Chawson to use of Susan Payne, then Matthew Rugeley for lives.
(b) messuage and tenements in Chawson, Roxton, Eaton and Wyboston, to separate use of Susan Payne for life, then as above.
both (a) and (b) to children of marriage.
daughters of Livett are present trustees – counsel’s opinion as to power to convey the estate to new trustees.
Archival history
British Records Association 984. (Hackney Borough Library, Mare Street, E.1.)
[from a miscellaneius collection of documents found in a derelict gold-beater’s factory]
Level of description
item